Maggie Fritz-Morkin

@emeffem

Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars

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YouTube Bluesky

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Jul 12

Honoring Senators Graham and McConnell

Woman in a red Tshirt from The Onion that says Tenth Circle added to rapidly expanding hell.

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Jul 1

For my hobbit-shaped sisters: the answer is tulip pants www.everlane.com/products/wom...

A retail model wearing a black v-neck polo and navy pants that I recommend for all you short curvy ladies out there. The pants: high waisted, front pleats, roomy legs that taper slightly at the ankle. This pair looks like heavy woven cotton that will hold a nice shape. I have so many variations in light flowy fabric, linen, heavy corduroy- all super flattering for whole body silhouette and especially for a bbl-tier tush. Best search term: tulip pants

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· May 21

First fruits!

A big pile of green and purple lettuce, three bright orange sungold tomatoes, a wee sprig of flat lesf parsley on an olive wood cutting board

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· May 21

Extar, bruiser goddess #caturday

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· May 15

Hero (very brave) vs. ferocious beast (asleep)

A white cat with gray patches timidly sniffs a cello that is lying on its side on a red patterned rug

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· May 12

Unfortunately I convinced myself that these tiny golden medusas will spiritually counteract all the cursed AI glasses 💸💸

Closeup of rimless eyeglasses where the lens meets the left bow. The bow is gold-colored metal and is anchored to the lens by a tiny golden medusa face rests on the front of the glass

(Shame on Versace, for baiting humanities folks with items beyond humanities paychecks)

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· May 9

It goes without saying, but

The Reg. A stacky construction of light gray cement blocks that was designed in Minecraft instance and built to be UChicago’s main library

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· May 8

SPRINKLETOAST

Half a Trader Joe ciabatta roll with butter, peanut butter, and chocolate sprinkles. A delightful breakfast. Try it, you won’t regret it

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Apr 16

A cursed meme with a frame of Chucky from the 1988 film Child’s Play. Chucky is a creepy doll that prefigures the aspect of JD Vance: his stiff helmet of hair, his lidless blue eyes, his mumpy cheeks, his lazy open-mouthed smile (in his benign expression, at least). The meme text cites JD Vance: The Pope should be careful

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Apr 16

Look at this moss

A high-pile mat of vivid green Irish moss, sagina subulata, a dense thicket of soft antenna-leaves to tickle feet and shelter the tiniest ground-dwelling souls, bursting with buds that will dot this forest with tiny white blossoms tomorrow

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Mar 29

Raleigh Rally in Bad Bunny and AAUP gear #nokings #NCpol @ncaaup.bsky.social

Tween child in fluorescent Bad Bunny Tshirt, middle aged mom in a red AAUP bandanna, white sweater with a huge black exclamation point, and blue pants (just outside the frame), because we’re patriotic as fuck

Beautiful North Carolinian holding a red sign that says Dick tater on day one. It also features a 30” inflatable penis with a head like trump and a crown, next to a 3D potato with a trump face

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Mar 23

Impeccable timeline today

Screenshot of consecutive tive bluesky posts, first by Derek Guy and second by Garfield and Friends. Derek says, “The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas - such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body - but they don't really understand Owens's work.
Let's talk about it.” He’s talking about Rick Owens’ quote, shown with a black and white photo of Rick with long sleek hair and unflustered gaze: “Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.”
The next screenshot shows Garfield in a sumo thong intensely coaching Jon Arbuckle in a karate gi. Jon is marching fiercely in place with a look of determination that captures the absurdity and ennui of modern existence.

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Mar 21

Tfw you learned to read just in time for the Mueller Report to drop @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social

A 6-year-old boy with red hair browses the Mueller Report in a DC bookstore. Eyes like saucers, jaw dropped

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Mar 15

Felt like this was a professional obligation #Dante #Inferno #medieval #academia @theonion.com

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Mar 6

Update: we began with memes [teen student: I had no idea there would be so many]

Jacques Derrida in B&W looking wildly over your shoulder with meme text that says, “Thinks language is unable to clearly communicate ideas/ WRITES BOOKS TO PROVE IT”

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Feb 25

#SOTU (derogatory)

Blurry nightime photo of the Washington Monument, DC lights, and an emoji poo where the capitol is

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Feb 17

The first political event I remember was a Jesse Jackson primary campaign stop in Green Bay. My parents got me a button. We shook his hand. I must’ve been 6

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Feb 8

Attention Duke fans. A child has something to say #UNC

A boy with red hair displays his T-Shirt that says Puke. The dark blue gothic letters look like Duke University’s official typeface. A rascally purple devil emoji covers his face because in this house we do not give our children’s likeness to the internet gremlins

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Jan 31

Friends in Oxford, MS are a week into having no power, water, heating, sewer and there’s no news about when any of it will be restored. No FEMA, no national guard. Not much news coverage

Text messages. stations, places to get free meals. in the Walmart parking lot yesterday, there were shower trucks, laundry service trucks. but a lot of people are way worse off than we are. like all the low income housing people lost all the food in their fridges and have no remaining snap money til next month, so lots of food insecurity and groups collecting meals and stuff
our governor is bragging about warming stations. and we are like, how many people can't even get to the warming stations? also lots of the warming stations have no water. the lafayette schools are shelters but they have no water, so idk how all those people are going to the bathroom
MEMA is helping some
state version of FEMA

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Jan 27

ice (mini comic diary of jan 24-26, finished). Not pictured: back cover with FUCK ICE and the date

A two-page spread of a snowy icy neighborhood scene in scribbly black ink and green to gray colored pencil. Evergreen trees and plants dominate the image two houses are visible across the street and three cars are parked in driveways on the right. White on pavement, cars, and roofs shows an inch of frest snow on everything.

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Jan 25

ice storm: a cartoon diary (work in progress) Solidarity with Minnesota fam from NC. Beautiful people #ICEOUT #icestorm #wip #comics #strep

Cover of an 8-page mini comic with a radar map of a storm. Snowy blue across the top, icy pink across the middle, rainy green across the bottom. Small block letters in bottom right corner say “ice”

First 2-page spread of a mini comic. In bottom left quadrant, a feverish redheaded child sleeping under a rainbow blanket on a dark brown couch. The only colorful part of the page. A bottle of antibiotics on the floor next to him. Top right shows a chicken inspecting the extra insulation on her coop. Top center: the sick child sits cross-legged on an exam table with this face buried in his hands. Right, top to bottom: a Bluesky feed with a photo post of Alex Pretti holding a camera right before ice agents killed him, captioned “His name is Alex Pretti”. Below, a photo post of protesters in the streets of Minneapolis

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Jan 25

Tapping the sign

Black and white protest poster with white block letters saying “ICE belongs at the bottom of Hell -Dante” and a dark background of Satan being a pouty little bitch in the icy depths of Hell. The illustration copies Gustave Doré’s etching of Dante’s Inferno xxxiv.

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 31

PSA if you’ve never donated platelets, you’re missing out on the whole blood spa experience. A comfy quiet warming bed, attendants who tuck you in and bring snacks, cheery relaxing vibes

A woman lounging on a heated chaise longue covered in white blankets. She looks relaxed af because she is

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 30

Running the Monty Hall problem with 12yo and he is big mad 10/10 would recommend

Score card. Stay: 3 points. Switch: 14 points

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 28

Tennis balls are a multisensory delight

Meme painting of man standing to speak his truth

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 25

After saying absolutely not for 6 months, I said yes to the slushie robot and we had an amazing pop-up slushie bar for friends and neighbors

Three 7th-grade boys drinking slushies and yapping on an unusually warm winter day. The grass is dead, the trees are bare, the boys are in shorts and t-shirts. On a table, a seafoam-colored slushie machine churns winter punch slush

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 23

I set a curse #SixSeven

Letterboard with variations on “six seven” styled after AI slop. Nota bene arabic and roman numerals, binary, other symbols

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 20

The Kennedy Center

Façade of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Something above the epigraph has been redacted with black bars

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 13

I’m generally a holiday deadbeat but this morning I made 90 florentines, come and get ‘em

Triple decker trays of lacy almond cookies with a dark chocolate bottom layer

Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem· Dec 8

I can’t get through all this email